I recently came across a traffic strategy that had completely crossed my mind previously – viral marketing by creating basic freeware applications and then submitting them to the major software directories (like Download.com).There’s a guy named Chris Rempel who’s using freeware programs to generate literally thousands of “downloaders” (visitors) daily, and he’s making a mint by promoting affiliate programs with that traffic.

He claims his best day so far was when one of his freeware applications got downloaded about 22,000 times in 24 hours, bringing in about $9,100.00 in affiliate commissions!